Amazing Pink Lake in Australia !!!

Lake Hillier is a pink-colored lake on Middle Island, the largest of
the islands and islets that make up the Recherche Archipelago, Western
Australia. The lake appears a solid bubble gum pink from above. It is
such a significant distinguishing feature of the archipelago that air
passengers often crane their necks to take a glimpse of it.

The
lake is about 600 meters long, and is surrounded by a rim of sand and a
dense woodland of paperbark and eucalyptus trees. A narrow strip of
sand dunes covered by vegetation separates it to the north from the
Southern Ocean.

It looks like a Bubble Gum !!!

Unlike other pink lakes in the world like the one in Retba and the salt ponds at San Francisco Bay,
the pink color of Lake Hillier has not been decisively proved, although
it is speculated that the color could arise from a dye created by the
organisms Dunaliella salina and Halobacteria. Another hypothesis is that
the pink color is due to red halophilic bacteria in the salt crusts.
That the color is not a trick of light can be proved by taking water
from the lake in a container – the pink color can be found to be
permanent.

Lake Hillier

One of the first evidence of Middle Island's pink
lake dates back to the journals of Matthew Flinders, a British navigator
and hydrographer in 1802. Flinders had climbed Middle Island's highest
peak (now known as Flinders Peak) to survey the surrounding waters when
he came across this remarkable pink lake. Except for a few years when
salt extraction was being carried out here, the island and its pink lake
has been almost untouched and has since then provide visitors with one
of the most amazing view of the world's natural wonder